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Midnight Blue Metal/Non-Metal

Blue Ridge Mountain Stone LLC · Surface
Controlled by Kenneth Lee Pearson
spruce pine, Mcdowell County, NC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3102325

MSHA record for Midnight Blue (mine ID 3102325). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
—
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
7
inspections on record
54
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 54 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2022-02-09, 4 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2022-02-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Blue Ridge Mountain Stone LLC 2020 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 1
2024 3
2023 3
2022 3
2021 3
2020 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Midnight Blue sits in McDowell County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.5% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
McDowell County, North Carolina · Population 44,679
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$55,527
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘ Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 138 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 86 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 270 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 244 0 0 0.0
Show 12 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 190 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 251 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 232 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 178 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 176 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 192 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 170 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 126 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 33 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 52 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 16 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.